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Back to SearchEllen Prentiss Campbell, "Vanishing Point" (Apprentice House Press, 2026)
Episode 1925
Beginning in the 1880s and spanning three generations through the 1980s, Vanishing Point (Apprentice House Press, 2026) explores the life and family …
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Lucas L. Johnson II, "Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World" (Broadleaf Books, 2026)
Episode 1924
As we approach the 50th anniversaries of Alex Haley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Roots (1976) and its landmark television adaptation (1977), journa…
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Stef Ferrari, "Pining for You" (Simon & Schuster, 2026)
Episode 1923
In Pining for You (Simon & Schuster, 2026) the classic Hallmark holiday movie gets turned upside down when a teen leaves her small-town Christmas tre…
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Jonathan Swift and David Womersley ed., "Gulliver's Travels: Cambridge Anniversary Edition" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1922
Gulliver's Travels is one of the landmarks of world literature. Gulliver's adventures with the tiny but spirited Lilliputians, the giant inhabitants …
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Téa Obreht, "Sunrise" (Random House, 2026)
Episode 1921
In 2024, Nina’s small-engine plane crashes into a lake in the Wyoming mountains. Her boyfriend Ben, who was flying it, is nowhere to be found. Lost a…
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Darlene Madott, "Closing Ceremonies and Dying Times" (Guernica Editions, 2026)
Episode 1920
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with retired lawyer and award-winning author of 10 books, Darlene Madott about her new book, Closing …
2 months ago
Rebecca Ruth Gould, "Strangers" (Serving House Books, 2025)
Episode 1919
In this episode, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Distinguished Professor, Comparative Poetics & Global Politics at SOAS University of London, and University of…
2 months ago
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, "The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois" (HarperCollins, 2021)
Episode 1918
In 2021, the NAACP Image Award-winning poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers made her fiction debut with The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois, a magisterial epic o…
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David Lagercrantz, "Post Mortem: A Mystery" (Knopf, 2026)
Episode 1917
Post Mortem: A Mystery (Knopf, 2026) is the third book in David Lagercrantz's mystery series following detective duo Rekke and Vargas: this time, t…
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Ed Park, "Three Tenses" (Random House, 2026)
Episode 1916
Three Tenses (Random House, 2026) by Ed Park is not quite a memoir, not quite fiction, not quite poetry and not quite prose—and yet it transcends the…
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